Recent Finds

1982-D Small Date Variety Previously Unknown in Bronze

SARASOTA, FLA. (February 13, 2017) — Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has certified the only known example of a 1982-D Small Date cent struck in bronze. The unique coin was discovered in November by an anonymous collector in Minnesota after he decided to examine a hoard of bronze cents that he had accumulated from circulation. In […]

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First 1983-D Copper Alloy Transitional Cent Reported

by Ken Potter Photo © Ken Potter 2013 Here’s a look at the obverse of Young’s coin Here’s a photograph of the 1983-D homogeneous Copper Alloy cent on Jeff Young’s scale. On Saturday 1/19/13 he brought the coin to Antiques By Time of Stockbridge, MI, where I weighed the coin myself, did a visual surface […]

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